Paper Review Suggestions

Discussion

In preparing to present the paper, read it over a few times and keep the following points in mind:

1. What is the underlying concept?
2. Can you follow the equations? (You should be able to follow the gist of them -- oif not, ask for help).
3. What are the most important sources that the paper cites? Find a couple of these references in the library and take a look at them.
4. What is the major contribution of the paper to the field? What, if anything, should this paper be remembered for 10 years from now?
5. What are the major short-comings of the paper? What remains to be done?
6. If you were going to follow on the research of this paper what would you do?

Archiving

Ideally, create a link to the paper on the wiki page or coursework page and produce a .bib format citation for the paper (in some cases you can download this directly, in other cases you'll have to type it).

Distribution and presentation

3 days before your presentation, distribute the paper to the rest of the class. By the time you present, everybody should have read the paper (though not as carefully as you). You will have ~20 minutes for presentation, with another 10 minutes for questions and discussion. You'll probably want to use slides and/or the board to explain concepts and results.

-- MarkCutkosky - 13 Dec 2007